Hamilton

Christie Lake Conservation Area
1000 Highway 5 West, Flamborough
905-628-3060
$4/person, additional $4 if bringing a vehicle
sunrise–sunset
near Greensville

Centred around the beautiful Christie Reservoir, this conservation area features a 360-metre long beach and a chlorinated swimming area separate from the reservoir. Also contains several ponds stocked with fish and large natural areas accessible by hiking trails.

Crooks Hollow Historical Trail
Crooks Hollow Road, Greensville
park at Crooks Hollow Conservation Area, Crooks Hollow Rd.

This trail traverses the site of Crooks Hollow, once the largest industrial community in Upper Canada but now a ghost town. Many of the buildings are now just grassy fields, but the Darnley Grist Mill is a spectacular ruin. A few buildings, now private residences, also still stand. Connects with the Optimist Park walking trail, which winds along the picturesque Spencer Creek and passes near Greensville Falls as well as more ruins, ending near the Spencer Gorge/Webster's Falls Conservation Area.

Confederation Park/Wild Waterworks
585 Van Wagners Beach Road

(http://www.conservationha...) offers lakefront camping, a waterpark (http://www.conservationha...) with wave pool and tube rides, and adventure village (http://www.adventure-vill...) with go-karts, batting cages, mini golf, etc.

Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
51 Stuart St
Free
10AM-4PM

Preserving, honouring, and promoting the culture and history of all working people. Their mandate points in the social justice direction, the union direction and the community activism path.

Tourism Hamilton
34 James Street South

(http://www.tourismhamilto...) is the city's official tourism website and offers a free "experience hamilton" visitor’s guide and current info on local events and attractions.

Haunted Hamilton Ghost Walks

Explores the dark alleys and haunted buildings where voices of the past are said to still linger to this day. Haunted Walks of Downtown Hamilton, the Historic Customs House, the Hermitage Ruins in the Dundas Valley Conservation Area Ancaster, as well as a historical tour of Hamilton's Dark Past, are done regularly throughout the year.

Golf

(http://old.hamilton.ca/vi...) at one of hamilton's 18-hole public courses: chedoke (http://old.hamilton.ca/vi...) or king's forest (http://old.hamilton.ca/vi...). there are numerous private courses (http://www.hamiltonspecta...) including the 2003 home to the canadian open, the top rated hamilton golf and country club (http://www.ontgolf.ca/que...), in ancaster. the hamilton golf and country club is an exclusive club that dates back to hamilton's industrial glory days. unless you know a member, or someone that knows a member, forget playing here.